I'm running SuSE 10 (DVD). I have Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 installed and the plugin is set up in /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/ nppdf.so -> /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so I have verified that the plugin is active with about:plugins When loading, all Firefox displays is a gray screen, it does not load acroread. However, I can save the page, and read it with Acroread.

I had a problem with bringing up PDFs through Firefox. They just didn't come up even though the plug-ins looked fine. I ended up removing the acroread plug-in via Edit->Preferences->Downloads->Plug-ins Afterwards PDFs show up fine via Firefox using acroread even though acroread does not show up in the plug-ins list! (Firefox does ask me first, though, if I want to download the file or view it via acroread.) -- Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net

On Sunday 20 November 2005 09:54 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Marshall,

On Sunday 20 November 2005 09:20, Marshall Lake wrote:

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I'm running SuSE 10 (DVD). I have Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 installed and the plugin is set up in /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/ nppdf.so -> /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so I have verified that the plugin is active with about:plugins When loading, all Firefox displays is a gray screen, it does not load acroread. However, I can save the page, and read it with Acroread.

I had a problem with bringing up PDFs through Firefox. They just didn't come up even though the plug-ins looked fine. I ended up removing the acroread plug-in via Edit->Preferences->Downloads->Plug-ins Afterwards PDFs show up fine via Firefox using acroread even though acroread does not show up in the plug-ins list! (Firefox does ask me first, though, if I want to download the file or view it via acroread.)

Do you see the PDF _in the browser window_? That requires the plug-in. Otherwise, the browser just retrieves the PDF file to a temporary file and launches the external viewer (which could be Adobe Reader or kpdf or other PDF viewer).

That's the problem. Something is fscked up with the plugin in 10/1.0.6 and 1.0.7 - it doesn't work. Opening as an external app does work. I'd work on it but I want to be sure and read this first. http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf Of course, I can't read it because... -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

On Sunday 20 November 2005 12:13 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Do any diagnostics appear in $HOME/.xsession-errors when you try to access PDF from within your browser?

(By the way, it's now called "Adobe Reader." The trademark Acrobat applies only to Adobe's PDF generation software.) The following diagnostics appear to be related: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x3251c9c X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x3251c9c QWidget::setMaximumSize: (unnamed/RecipientComboBox) The largest allowed size is (32767,32767)

Note that when I open a PDF, it loads correctly in Firefox. A second attempt at loading a PDF from a site works fine. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

I solved the problem after removing the plugin and reinstalling it with the script /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/install_browser_plugin. When you are asked for the browser installation folder, enter /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib. I'm not sure why that worked and why the symlink did not. All install_browser_plugin effectively does is to copy nppdf.so to the

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 3:06 am, SuSE Linux wrote: plugin directory. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 2:24 pm, Laurent Renard wrote:

Le mardi 22 novembre 2005 à 13:43 -0500, Jerry Feldman a écrit :

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On Tuesday 22 November 2005 3:06 am, SuSE Linux wrote:

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I solved the problem after removing the plugin and reinstalling it with the script /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/install_browser_plugin. When you are asked for the browser installation folder, enter /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib.

so ... what do we have to do to reinstall it ? Follow the instructions, above that Francesco suggested this morning. You will find the plugin in /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins as nppdf.so which is a symlink to /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so Just remove the symlink and run the script. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9